Educate Yourself

Readying Your Employees For Retirement

Easing the Retirement Process
In an effort to assist your employees, TRS has developed a list of things you can do to help ease the retirement process—for both of you.

• Encourage your employees to contact TRS for information and advice about the available retirement options before completing any application for retirement. We also recommend each member to talk to the professionals on staff at TRS to help them make the best decisions for retirement.
• Provide each employee with the information needed for retirement. Please direct your employees to apply for retirement online. This will save time and increase the likelihood of smooth process. If a member chooses to apply on paper, the Service Retirement Packet or the Disability Retirement Packet is available in the forms section.
• Direct members to the Active Member section of this website for all of their retirement information.
• Complete the forms required by the employer in a timely manner to prevent delays in processing members for retirement. Members are not put on retirement payroll until all forms have been received and completed properly. The forms you are responsible for are Retirement Certification Report and Sick Leave Certification.